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Leukemia-Related Books



    On the shelves:

  • "100 Questions and Answers About Leukemia"
    Edward D. Ball, Gregory Lelek. Jones & Bartlett Pub; ISBN: 0763720380; 1st edition (August 15, 2002)

  • "Acute Leukemias VIII: Prognostic Factors and Treatment Strategies (Hamatologie Und Bluttransfusion, 40.)"
    T. Buchner (Editor), et al. Hardcover. November 2001

  • "Adult Leukemia: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Families"
    Barbara Lackritz. 2001. Good, basic information on the various types of leukemia and treatment.

  • "Amy's Wish"
    Paul Kropp. Paperback June 1985. A depressed girl is brought to an appreciation of the value of life by a friend suffering from leukemia.

  • "Anatomy of an Illness"
    Norman Cousins, 1980. A little slow going. Mostly talks about the power of placebo and positive thinking to cure ourselves.

  • "Being Brett: Chronicle of a Daughter's Death"
    Douglas Hobbie, 1996. Excellent! But very sad.

  • "Bluish: A Novel"
    Virginia Hamilton, October 1999. A young girl and her friends confront life, and leukemia.

  • "Campath-1H: Emerging Frontline Therapy in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia"
    Kanti R. Rai, Janet Stephenson, H. Waldmann, March 15, 2001, CRC Press-Parthenon Publishers

  • "Childhood Leukemia: A Guide For Families, Friends & Caregivers"
    Nancy Keene, Linda Lamb(Editor). Paperback. 3rd ed, 2002.

  • "Childhood Leukemia: The Facts"
    John S. Lilleyman. 2nd Ed. April 2000.

  • "Christmas Spurs"
    Bill Wallace, Patricia MacDonald (Editor). Paperback reprint 1992. Ages 9-12. The death of Nick's little brother Jimmy from leukemia leaves Nick feeling empty and alone. Then a small miracle occurs at a Christmas service in his Oklahoma church.

  • "Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia: Biology & Treatment"
    Edited by John M. Goldman, et al. 2001, Marin Dunitz

  • "Close to the Bone: Life-threatening Illness & the Search for Meaning"
    Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., October 1996. Finding spirituality, myths, rituals, and community during illness. This is rather dense reading, and it's heavy on myth, but worth wading through if you or someone you know has any sort of serious illness.

  • "Coping With Leukemia"
    Melanie Ann Apel. October 2000

  • "Death Be Not Proud"
    John Gunther. A must-read classic. Written about the time of WWII, the attitudes expressed in the book about dealing with life-threatening illness are definitely paternalistic: The parents do not tell their teenage son he is dying of brain cancer. But in the end, they get a surprise when they find his diaries.

  • "Drug Resistance in Leukemia and Lymphoma III (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, V. 457)"
    G. J. L. Kaspers (Editor), R. Pieters (Editor), A. J. P. Veerman (Editor). September 1999. A textbook.

  • "Everything You Need to Know About When Someone You Know Has Leukemia"
    Heather Moehn, February 2000

  • "Family Secrets (Dear Diary)"
    Cheryl Zach, May 1996. An adopted girl needs a bone marrow transplant, and must search for her biological family.

  • "Get a Life (Clearwater Crossings, No. 1)"
    Laura Peyton Roberts. April 1998. Young adult. When a classmate named Kurt is diagnosed with leukemia, the students at Clearwater Crossings High organize a fundraising carnival.

  • "Gideon's Gift" (Children's fiction)
    Karen Kingsbury, September 2003, ISBN 157490518X
    Description: One long-ago Christmas, Big Earl Gibson lost the two things most precious to him-his wife and daughter. Angry and heartbroken, he abandoned his belief in God and is now living on the street. Gideon is a seven-year-old leukemia patient determined to reach out to this lonely and hurting man. And Earl is just as determined to rebuff her. It is only through a miracle that Earl finally comes to understand the true meaning of Christmas. And it's only then that he can return the favor with a precious gift of his own.

  • "Having Leukemia Isn't So Bad: Of Course It Wouldn't Be My First Choice"
    Cynthia Krumme. Sargasso Enterprises; ISBN: 0963555448; (July 1993)

  • "Hematologic Malignancies: Methods and Techniques"
    Guy B. Faguet (Editor). December 2000.

  • "I'm Still Me, Coping with Leukemia"
    Tim Peters.

  • "Invincible Summer"
    Jean Ferris. 1994. Young adult. Seventeen-year-old Robin, in treatment for leukemia, falls in love with a boy who also has the disease, and together they attempt to survive their ordeal.

  • "Jeff's Denial: The Moving Story of a Teenage Son Who Fought Leukemia by Attacking Life"
    Ernest Zielasko.

  • "The Journey Back : A Survivors Guide to Leukemia"
    Jack L. Smedley, Iva Smedley.

  • "Kathy's Hats: A Story of Hope"
    Trudy Krisher. A little girl loses her hair to cancer treatment. For ages 4 to 8.

  • "Leukemia"
    Joyce Shannon (Editor). (Health Reference Series) Omnigraphics, Inc.; ISBN: 0780806271; (February 2003)

  • "Leukemia and Lymphoma: Detection of Minimal Residual Disease"
    Theodore F. Zipf (Editor), Dennis A. Johnston (Editor). Humana Press; ISBN: 0896039668; (February 2003)

  • "Leukaemia Diagnosis"
    Barbara J. Bain, Blackwell Science Inc; ISBN: 0632051655; 2 edition (February 15, 1999); 3rd Edition published August 2003
    Description: Imperial College, London, UK. Provides completely new and updated information on the molecular basis of leukemia using new WHO guidelines for diagnosis and classification. Provides a firm base in cytology and cytochemistry and includes the major advances in the fields of immunopheotyping, cytogenetics, and molecular genetics. Color illustrations. DNLM: Leukemia-classification.

  • "Leukemia (Diseases and People)"
    Alvin Silverstein, et al. June 2000. Young adult.

  • "The Leukemia-Lymphoma Cell Line Factsbook"
    Hans G. Drexler. Paperback September 2000. Textbook.

  • "Leukemia (Perspectives on Disease and Illness)"
    Judith Peacock, Barbara Asselin. January 2000.

  • "Leukemia and Related Disorders"
    J. A. Whittaker (Editor), J. A. Holmes (Editor).

  • "Leukemia Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information About Adult and Childhood Leukemias"
    Joyce Brennfleck Shannon, September 2003, ISBN 0780806271
    Description: This resource for non-professionals answers questions patients and their caregivers may have about the diagnosis and treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute myeloid leukemia in children as well as pre-leukemia myelodysplastic syndrome, acute and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, acute and chronic myelogenous leukemia, and hairy cell leukemia in adults. The 47 chapters discuss risk factors for leukemia, blood cell counts, bone marrow aspiration, financial issues, transplantation therapy, access to investigational drugs, nutrition in cancer care, fatigue and pain control, and the long-term effects of leukemia treatments

  • "Leukemia: Understanding Illness"
    Sue Vander Hook. August 2000.

  • "Living With Leukemia (Living With Series)"
    Patsy Westcott.

  • "Magic Cancer Bullet: How a Tiny Orange Pill May Rewrite Medical History"
    Daniel Vasella, chairman of Novartis, June 2003. Nonfiction book describing Gleevec and its development.

  • "Medical Management of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia"
    Moshe Talpaz, Hagop M. Kantarjian (editors). 1999. A textbook describing CML, its treatment, and future therapies.

  • "Myelodysplastic Syndromes & Secondary Acute Myelogenus Leukemia: Directions for the New Millennium"
    Azra Raza (Editor), Suneel D., Ph.D. Mundle (Editor). Kluwer Academic Publishers; ISBN: 0792373960; 1st edition (June 15, 2001)

  • "My Own Medicine: A Doctor's Life as a Patient"
    Geoffrey Kurland, September 2002

  • "Only Spring: On Mourning the Death of My Son"
    Dr. Gordon Livingston, Mark Helprin (Foreword).

  • "Pediatric Bone Marrow: A Practical Approach to the Diagnosis of Pediatric Bone Marrow Disorders"
    Lila Penchansky, January 2004

  • "The Red Devil: A Memoir About Beating the Odds"
    Katherine Russell Rich, September 2000. A 30-something is mistakenly told she's too young for breast cancer. A sad but compelling book; gets raves from everyone I know who's read it, including me.

  • "Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying Before I Do"
    Christina Middlebrook, 1996.

  • "Surviving Leukemia: A Practical Guide"
    Robert Dr Patenaude, E. Donnall Thomas. September 1999.

  • "Survivor: Taking Control of Your Fight Against Cancer"
    Laura Landro, October 1998. The author writes about her BMT for CML at the Hutch in the early 1990s. Definitely worth a read. Some readers might be put off, though, by the privileges she receives by virtue of her contacts.

  • "Talk Before Sleep"
    Elizabeth Berg, May 1994. Inseparable friends share life and death. You'll want to read it more than once.

  • "There's a Little Bit of Me in Jamey"
    Diana M. Amadeo, Judith Friedman. Albert Whitman & Co; ISBN: 0807578541; (November 1995)

  • "The Time Capsule" (Children's fiction)
    Lurlene McDaniel, September 2003, ISBN 055313051X

  • "Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors"
    Evan Handler. 1997. A good, easy read about an actor diagnosed with acute leukemia when BMTs were just coming of age in the late 1980s. Some of the explicit content might offend some readers, but the overall story is a good one. Lots of focus on alternative healing.

  • "Too Young to Die"
    Lurlene McDaniel. 1989. Sixteen-year-old Melissa Austin had everything going for her until she was diagnosed with leukemia. At first, she refused to accept the news, but as her illness progressed she couldn't deny the truth. Melissa knew she must live for now, and help her family and friends through the stages of anger, grief and acceptance. (Has sequels.)

  • "Transcription Factors: Normal and Malignant Development of Blood Cells"
    Katya Ravid (Editor), Jonathan Licht (Editor) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471350540; (November 2000)

  • "Understanding Leukaemia and Related Cancers"
    Tariq I. Mughal, J. M. Goldman. Blackwell Science Inc; ISBN: 0632053461; 1st edition (September 15, 1999)

  • "You and Leukemia: A Day at a Time"
    Lynn S., Md. Baker, Charles G. Roland, ge Gilchrist. 2nd edition (January 2002)

  • "Zink"
    Cherie Bennett, Delacorte Press; ISBN: 0385326696; (October 12, 1999). "Inspired by an actual child's life and writings, recast from Bennett's award-winning play of the same title, this tale of a young leukemia victim will elicit both tears and laughter."



    Note: Books marked in italics are those I've read.
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